Will HRC ever stop moralizing?
Will she ever stop trying to legislate morality?
Before a single CDC grantee has begun research to confirm there’s a problem, Clinton already has proposed a solution: the Family Entertainment Protection Act (FEPA), which would make it a federal crime to sell anyone under the age of 17 video games with “mature” or “adults only” ratings. FEPA also would instruct the Federal Trade Commission to evaluate the industry’s rating system, conduct secret
annual audits of retailers, investigate “hidden” game content, and collect
consumer complaints about ratings and content descriptions. (from Reason’s Jacob Sullum)
The Reasonable crowd at Hit and Run isn’t buying:
“It takes a village” to totally dominate and control every aspect of everyone’s life.
It takes and individual to accept responsibility for their own life. Madame Defarge will have none of that.
Comment by: Stephen Macklin at March 22, 2006 09:52
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Will Hillary ever open her mind to a new idea?
It looks like HRC doesn’t read any more than GWB did before he became president (and finally learned that there is wisdom to be found between the covers of a book that isn’t the Bible).
The book Everything Bad Is Good for You made headlines last year. Author Steven Johnson has the notion–and some of the research to back it up–that video games and television do not rot your brain. You’ll be hearing more in this vein from me.
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[...] And he also links to a fine defense of the web as “the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture,” by Steven Johnson, who happens to have written one of my favorite books of the last 30 years, the daring Everything Bad Is Good for You, which I wrote about here and which I’ve been meaning to write more about…except blogging leads you places you never thought you’d go…and there are only 24 hours in every day…and so so many things to fit in… [...]
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